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The Tennis Court Oath (French: Le Serment du Jeu de paume) is an incomplete painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, painted between 1790 and 1794 and showing the titular Tennis Court Oath at Versailles, one of the foundational events of the French Revolution. Political reversals and financial difficulties meant that ...
The Tennis Court Oath ( French: Serment du Jeu de Paume) was taken on 20 June 1789 by the members of the French Third Estate in a tennis court on the initiative of Jean Joseph Mounier. Their vow "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established" became a pivotal event in the French ...
In 1790, the noted artist Jacques-Louis David began preparations for a grand painting to visualise and honour the swearing of the Tennis Court Oath. While the events of the revolution prevented David from completing the painting, his preliminary engraving (above) survives and provides the best-known representation of the events of June 20th.
Title: The Oath of the Tennis Court. Artist: Jacques Louis David (French, Paris 1748–1825 Brussels) Date: 1791. Medium: Pen and brown and black ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, with two irregularly shaped fragments of paper affixed to the sheet. Dimensions: Sheet: 26 in. × 39 13/16 in. (66 × 101.2 cm)
Apr 21, 2022 · David, Jacques-Louis. " The Tennis Court Oath ." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 21 Apr 2022. Web. 11 Jun 2024. Painting depicting the Tennis Court Oath, taken by members of the National Assembly on 20 June 1789. Painted by Jacques-Louis David in the 1790s.
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Oct 9, 2020 · A historical painting of the Tennis Court Oath, a key event of the French Revolution, by the neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David. Learn about the symbolism, the history and the unfinished status of this masterpiece.
Tennis Court Oath (Annotated) Jacques-Louis David, The Tennis Court Oath (1791), Musée National du Château, Versailles . Image source: CGFA. Notes: 1. At the center of the image, three figures embrace: the Protestant Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Etienne (1743-1793, center), the Carthusian monk Dom Christophe-Antoine Gerle (1743-1801, left), and the ...
